Our crises are shared: Doug Ford’s government to defund safe consumption sites, drive toxic drug crisis death toll Supervised consumption sites save lives

Our crises are shared:

Doug Ford’s government to defund safe consumption sites, drive toxic drug crisis death toll.

Supervised consumption sites save lives.

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Harm reduction saves lives by reducing overdoses, preventing disease, and connecting people to care.

Abstinence-only fails substance users, with higher rates of illness, overdose, and relapse.

#HarmReduction

Supervised consumption site closure in London will leave gap in services, operator says | CBC News Ontario's surprise decision to stop funding supervised consumption sites resulting in their closure will leave a gaping hole that will put people's lives at risk, according to the operators of London'...

Why the people running London's soon-to-close supervised consumption site say it works.

Province gives operators 90 days before funding ends on June 13.

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Bogota fights heroin overdoses with South America's only supervised drug consumption room Colombia's capital has South America’s only supervised room for drug use, aimed at reducing harm and preventing overdoses and now a topic of the International Conference on Harm Reduction, which has b...

Bogota fights heroin overdoses with South America's only supervised drug consumption room abcnews.go.com/Health/wireS...

#hr25bogota #hr25

Colombia Pioneers Safe Heroin Injection Transforming Latin American Reality Inside an unmarked room in a modest Bogotá district, people openly inject heroin under the cautious gaze of trained staff. This pioneering Colombian supervised facility signals a groundbreaking effort...

Colombia Pioneers Safe Heroin Injection Transforming Latin American Reality latinamericanpost.com/americas/col...

#hr25bogota

Despite pledge to expand naloxone access, Trump administration proposal would cut overdose prevention programs | CNN The Trump administration has named overdose prevention among its top drug policy priorities, but a preliminary budget proposal that was recently leaked suggests that it would cut about two dozen subst...

Despite pledge to expand naloxone access, Trump administration proposal would cut overdose prevention programs

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Belfast: Public needle bin 'is not a silver bullet' for drugs issue A trial for a waste needle bin in a Belfast city centre car park will be voted on at council on Thursday.

Public needle bin 'not a silver bullet' for drugs issue

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'We need action': Vancouver mayor calls for change in dealing with city's mental health crisis | News Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim had a clear focus at a press conference on Wednesday morning addressing mental health care in the city.

Hey
@kensimcity.bsky.social
where's the 100 New Mental Health Nurses you Promised Vancouver in 2022 ??

Vancouver mayor calls for change in dealing with city's mental health crisis

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Trey-bute at Writer's Block 28 new items added to shared album

The East Vancouver graffiti community came together today and threw down a load of Grow Ups in memory of Trey Helten 🙌

#dtes #vanpoli #vanops #insite
@insitevan.bsky.social @andreawoo.bsky.social

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Rest In Power, Trey Helten aka GrowUp↑, who saved lives, both human & animal, comforted the sad & sick, supported folks struggling w/ addiction, covered ugly walls with art, & fkn slayed John Mackie & the Vancouver Scum @vancouversun.bsky.social years ago 🤲

#VanOPs #InSite #DTES #Vancouver #VanPoli

Excruciating timing for Front Burner to run a story on Vancouver’s Overdose Prevention Society the morning after harm reduction advocates learned of the death of one of its staff and cultural cornerstones. 1/
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The profit motive enters the picture here when Poilievre’s legislation follows the Alberta model (see: Compassionate Intervention Act) in which private delivery of forced abstinence “services” stand in for full-blown incarceration.

Aka prison privatization under guise of “treatment.” 1/

Love you, bro. Glad I saw you on my birthday. Wish you'd let me take that pic of you 😟
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My pics: Drug checking @ @insitevan.bsky.social and Trey Helten aka GrowUp↑aka Ashtray's final graffiti PSA with Smokey D in the #DTES

Trey Helten, prominent advocate for people who use drugs - remembered for his own battle with addiction - has died As manager at Vancouver’s Overdose Prevention Society, he helped people schedule medical appointments and find housing, and reversed hundreds of overdoses and trained others to do the same

Trey Helten, an advocate for drug users whose willingness to speak searingly about his own battle with addiction provided hope and inspiration to many in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, has died at 42.
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Manitoba health minister on hot seat over supervised drug site Manitoba’s addictions minister told a public meeting that a final decision hasn’t been made about a location for a supervised injection site, despite a pending application with the federal government....

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Manitoba health minister on hot seat over supervised drug site Manitoba’s addictions minister told a public meeting that a final decision hasn’t been made about a location for a supervised injection site, despite a pending application with the federal government....

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'People don't judge you': Inside the final days of a safe consumption site in Toronto | CBC News The Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre's two supervised consumption sites closed last week, in light of a new provincial law. In the final days of the Queen Street site, clients and staff sai...

People don't judge you': Inside the final days of a safe consumption site in Toronto.
The Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre's 2 supervised consumption sites closed last week

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The Conservatives have vowed to ‘defund federal drug dens.’ Here’s what they mean. Plans announced by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to shutter what he called 'drug dens' would almost certainly increase Canada’s death toll from preventable overdoses, according to a researcher ...

The Conservatives have vowed to ‘defund federal drug dens.’ Here’s what they mean.
#harmreduction #insitesaveslives

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Voting location map and hours | Where to vote | City of Vancouver See which Voting locations are close to your home, work, or where you're running errands.

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The last days of Kitchener’s supervised drug-use site As Ontario seeks to close half of its supervised drug-use sites, The Globe spoke with the clients and staff who may lose their places of support

The last days of Kitchener’s supervised drug-use site

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Today on Your Province, Your Premier…

Smith made it clear that she has directed to shut down Calgary’s lifesaving supervised consumption site at the request of #YYC mayor Jyoti Gondek.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

A traditional after voting beer. A reminder to folks in Vancouver that today, and APR 1 city hall is open for advanced voting, with the election being held on APR 5. Two seats in city council are currently open, this is a chance to loosen Ken Sim’s grip on the city.

#vancouvervotes

9 Ontario supervised consumption sites to close despite injunction, minister says | CBC News The Ontario provincial government says nine supervised consumption sites will close Tuesday as planned, despite a recent court injunction allowing them to remain open temporarily.

9 Ontario supervised consumption sites to close despite injunction, minister says
#harmreduction

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Brampton supervised consumption site will close despite injunction | inBrampton Nine supervised consumption sites in Ontario including one in Brampton will close on Tuesday as planned, despite a recent court injunction allowing them to remain open temporarily.

Brampton supervised consumption site will close despite injunction | inBrampton www.insauga.com/brampton-sup...

2 die on Victoria streets little more than an hour apart as Island Health issues drug toxicity warning | CBC News Two people died a little over an hour apart in Victoria on Monday, Victoria police and the B.C. Coroners Service have confirmed

2 die on Victoria streets little more than an hour apart as Island Health issues drug toxicity warning.

Island Health issues drug alert. Coroners Service says cause of deaths still under investigation

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B.C. doctors get new guidance on involuntary care for drug users | CBC News The guidance from Dr. Daniel Vigo, B.C.'s first chief scientific adviser for psychiatry, is aimed at helping clinicians and others decide when involuntary admission is appropriate for people with both...

B.C. doctors get new guidance on involuntary care for drug users
Chief scientific adviser says majority of people with mental disorders will not meet involuntary care criteria

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Supervised drug facility could save many of Cork's problem drug users, UCC research claims The UCC report also said a supervised drug consumption facility could lead to a reduction of drug-related litter in Cork city and the number of open-air ‘drug dens’

Supervised drug facility could save many of Cork's problem drug users, UCC research claims

The UCC report also said a supervised drug consumption facility could lead to a reduction of drug-related litter in Cork city and the number of open-air ‘drug dens’
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Expect more public drug use after closing of supervised consumption site, officials warn After a supervised consumption site in Ottawa's Centretown closed, officials said public drug use is expected to increase.

Expect more public drug use after closing of supervised consumption site, officials warn
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Fentanyl crisis sparks advocacy for harm reduction efforts in recovery For years, individuals battling opioid addiction have faced a grim choice: get clean or die. But some people now see a third option — harm reduction.

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